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<blockquote data-quote="Pr1malr8ge" data-source="post: 4753" data-attributes="member: 16"><p>Agreed. Jumping any gapped jumps with out having air time under your belt is not a wise move. The nice thing about 4 strokes is they can grunt over jumps which means it's not needed to be reved out to make jumps. When reving out on a jump you will pitch the bike High and need to pitch back level. The flip side to this with the compression is that if you jump with throttle off you will pitch down and most of the time panic rev will not help alot. Constant throttle is key in jumping. You need to get aclamated on being able to judge what speed you need to be at when clearing jumps especialy gapped jumps. This in part is the realization of right before a jump you will not have the speed to make the jump which hopefully you can brake to a slow enough speed not to jump or case. I have never been a person to be able to match someones speed nor am I someone to follow suit. I have a tendancy to either go to fast when aproaching a jump and slow down or not be going fast enough and goose it over at the last second. The best thing is to find a safe track with good size jumps that are considered safe table tops that you can work your way up to clearing them. Learning bike control before during and after a jump requires time so don't be discouraged that you're not clearing stuff. </p><p>As far as when you will be able to clear gapped jumps that just depends on you and the jump thats gapped. hitting a gapped 20ft double with a long lead way is nothing compared to a 40-60ft double/tripple with minimal lead up. </p><p></p><p>So practice on tables get acustomed to jumping and have fun. BTW proper suspension setup helps with this alot also.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pr1malr8ge, post: 4753, member: 16"] Agreed. Jumping any gapped jumps with out having air time under your belt is not a wise move. The nice thing about 4 strokes is they can grunt over jumps which means it's not needed to be reved out to make jumps. When reving out on a jump you will pitch the bike High and need to pitch back level. The flip side to this with the compression is that if you jump with throttle off you will pitch down and most of the time panic rev will not help alot. Constant throttle is key in jumping. You need to get aclamated on being able to judge what speed you need to be at when clearing jumps especialy gapped jumps. This in part is the realization of right before a jump you will not have the speed to make the jump which hopefully you can brake to a slow enough speed not to jump or case. I have never been a person to be able to match someones speed nor am I someone to follow suit. I have a tendancy to either go to fast when aproaching a jump and slow down or not be going fast enough and goose it over at the last second. The best thing is to find a safe track with good size jumps that are considered safe table tops that you can work your way up to clearing them. Learning bike control before during and after a jump requires time so don't be discouraged that you're not clearing stuff. As far as when you will be able to clear gapped jumps that just depends on you and the jump thats gapped. hitting a gapped 20ft double with a long lead way is nothing compared to a 40-60ft double/tripple with minimal lead up. So practice on tables get acustomed to jumping and have fun. BTW proper suspension setup helps with this alot also. [/QUOTE]
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